- 20 nov 2010
Israeli authorities planning to eject 100,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Observers say the situation in Jerusalem is likely to explode in light of a decision by Israeli occupation authorities to demolish hundreds of Palestinian homes in the city.
Israeli legal consultant Yahuda Feinstein, during a meeting Thursday between Israel's planning and construction committee attended by the Israeli mayor of Jerusalem and police force representatives, gave directives to partially close down a settlement outpost in the Arab district of Silwan and demolish hundreds of nearby Palestinian homes.
Silwan defense committee member Fakhri Abu Dhiab told Al-Jazeera that hundreds of residents have already received demolition notices.
Referring to sources inside Israel's Jerusalem municipality, he added that Jerusalem mayor Nir Barakat received the green light from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to carry out the demolitions.
The committee said 340 homes are threatened to be demolished in Silwan for allegedly being built without a permit.
Israeli authorities approved only 60 building permits since the eastern part of the city was occupied in 1967.
Jerusalem attorney Ahmed Al-Roweidi said in a press release on Thursday that more than 20,000 homes in Jerusalem will be affected by decisions made in Israeli courts, adding that demolition orders against these homes would require 100,000 Palestinians to be ejected from their homes in an attempt to attract more Jewish settlers to reside in new settlements.
Roweidi said the Jerusalem district of Silwan, the Bustan neighborhood in particular, was under the greatest danger as the Israeli government threatened to take down 88 homes and evacuate 1,500 Arab residents to build a new biblical park dubbed the King's Park on its place.
The Israeli occupation government is also expected to approve during a weekly meeting on Sunday a 30 million dollar plan to finish digging and construction in the Buraq Square, known by Jews as the Wailing Wall area.
Sources in Jerusalem said the plan, scheduled to stretch between 2011-2015, includes archaeological excavations in the area and tunnels near the Aqsa Mosque set to make the area accessible to the Jewish public.
The plan was complementary to an earlier 20 million dollar plan that lasted from 2006 to 2010 aimed at developing the Buraq Square and surrounding areas.
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6 jan 2011, 17:42 , Respect -
Maria 22 nov 2010
Israel razes Bedouin village for 7th time
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli government bulldozers raised the Bedouin town of Al-Arakib, in the Negev desert, for the 7th time in three months on Monday.
Local sources said Israeli police raided houses in the village, emptying them of residents' possessions, before demolishing the structures.
The Israeli news site Ynet reported that Israel Land Administration representatives and the security forces participated in the demolition.
Al-Arakib is one of 45 so-called unrecognized Bedouin villages in southern Israel, which have a combined population of 76,000.
These communities, some of which have existed since before the establishment of the state in 1948, receive no water, electricity, or other government services.
Israeli authorities first razed Al-Arakib in late June, returning six more times to destroy the town after residents rebuilt their homes.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=334803
US pledges never to ask Israel for another settlement freeze
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli bulldozers were sighted Monday morning chomping through private farmland and homes in the Arab district of Issawiyya in central Jerusalem. The US continues to offer Israel a list of incentives to let peace talks flourish by stopping settlement expansion on Arab lands for another three months.
Issawiyya has been for weeks under attack by Israeli authorities in what locals consider retaliation for clashes that erupted in the district over police abuse targeting Palestinians. Many of the town's entrances have been closed off and military has been patrolling the main gate in the northeastern part of the town to check Palestinians for identity cards since the conflicts settled down.
Barbed wire has also been placed in the northern part of the town in an attempt to seize tens of dunums of land. Most of the land has already been absorbed by Israel to build thousands of residential units for Jewish settlers, a state university, a hospital, and other facilities.
Israeli authorities are erecting a new Jewish settlement neighborhood as part of a larger vision of expanding the Otairt Benyamin settlement near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli channel seven reported.
Marking the event, settlement council head Danny Dayan asserted: At a time when we stand before the whole world, we must remember that we are sincere and will continue building despite difficulties, and we can never stop building.
Armed Jewish settlers began leveling Sunday morning Palestinian land in the northern Nablus villages of Sawiya and Yatma to expand the Rahalim settlement.
Israeli national security advisor Uzi Arad said: The American administration has begun to understand that we will only agree to extend the building freeze in the settlements one more time.
He confirmed that the US has pledged to veto out any UN decisions backing the establishment of a Palestinian state if the Palestinians bypassed negotiations with Israel.
Israeli and Palestinian understandings on the settlement issue are still in effect, but applying them on the ground will take some time.
Israel reportedly disclosed a written agreement from America not to push for another settlement moratorium in the West Bank.
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Retaining walls demolished near Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli bulldozers demolished retaining walls and a barbed wire fence surrounding an agricultural field in Iswawiya, northeast of Jerusalem, local sources said Monday.
The sources said the walls were demolished two weeks ago, and rebuilt by villagers.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=334829
Criminal Corporate Complicity- News Analysis
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In this Edition of Press TV's News Analysis, the focus is on the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. It is heard compelling evidence of corporate complicity in Israeli violations of international law in occupied Palestinian territories, such as US companies, which provide bulldozers that demolish Palestinian homes. Holding no legal authority, it will publish its findings, at a minimum, for public awareness of Israeli crimes.
Frank Barat, Sameh Habeeb, Hani al-Bassous and Nada Hashwi joined Kaveh Taghvai for show to share their thoughts about the story.
Israeli Settlers Take Over Palestinian Homes in East Jerusalem
As some of you may have heard Israeli police and settlers this morning (23 November) forcibly evicted 3 Palestinian families from their home in Al Farouq neighbourhood of Jabal al Mukabber in East Jerusalem.
We are still following up to ascertain the facts of the case, but wanted to send you a brief update at this early stage.
According to the information we have at the moment, a large force of Israeli police and border police forcibly evicted the families between 9.00 and 10.00 this morning. Immediately following the eviction the building was handed over to a group of settlers that reportedly are affiliated with the settler organization El Ad. The settler group is currently undertaking some work on the premises, possibly to fortify the building.
The building in question consists of a 3 separate apartments located on 3 floors. It was inhabited by the Qara'in family, which includes 3 nuclear families of 14 people, including 5 children ranging from 3 to 10 years of age. The families are currently sheltering with their neighbours, having no alternative place to live.
The grounds for the eviction are not entirely clear, but according to initial reports the settler group claims to have purchased the building from a deceased relative of the family a few years ago. The family and their lawyer tried to challenge these claims before Israeli courts, but were unsuccessful.
This eviction yet again raises serious concerns about the ongoing establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territory, in particular in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem. In addition to Jabal al Mukabber, similar developments have been observed in other Palestinian areas, such as in Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan and the Old City.
It is worth noting that the prohibition on the transfer of settlers into occupied territory under international law applies regardless of the means or methods used for the acquisition of property and as such should cease immediately.
If any of you can assist the families, in particular with alternative housing/shelter and other basic needs (much of their furniture and personal belongings have been lost), please let us know as soon as possible.
We will continue to monitor the case and will keep you posted.
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9 jan 2011, 06:52 , Respect -
Maria 24 nov 2010
US investors are funding Arab property takeovers in Jerusalem
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Rights groups in Jerusalem are warning that Israel has discovered new ways to circumvent US and international pressure to hamper Jewish settlement activity in the holy city by utilizing the judicial system to legally back the confiscation of homes and eviction of their residents.
Less than 24 hours ago on Tuesday a group of Israeli settlers under Israeli police protection were able to legally take over a three-storey home in the city's Al-Farouq district, after it slipped into their paws about five years back.
The Jerusalem center for social and economic rights reiterated accusations against Israeli and US companies for buying and funding the seizure of Arab homes in the holy city, calling on the US administration to take sanctions against any American citizen who funds illegal settlement activity or seizure of private Palestinian property in the occupied east Jerusalem.
The center cited Jewish-American millionaire Irving Moskowitz as a key funder of settlement activity in Jerusalem, who is involved in the takeover of tens of Palestinian properties. He also financed the Maalih Hazaytem settlement and strong-armed a number of properties in Sheikh Jarrah.
The American Wal-Investment real estate company was reported to have been involved in a number of suspicious property buyouts, the last of which was the Al-Farouq home which was illicitly bought from the Qaraein family.
The company was known in the past for being behind purchases throughout controversial Jerusalem areas in cooperation with Elad and other Moscowitz-funded settlement foundations, responsible for erecting around 130 settlement outposts in and around the city of Jerusalem.
The center reported that the Israeli government has provided Elad and other funds with unlimited financial backing. Last year the government placed an area known by Jews as the Holy Basin under the control of Elad and other active funds.
Under the pretext of building the city's infrastructure and developing its religious sites, the government approved an NIS 85 million budget two days ago to build up the Aqsa Mosque's Buraq Square, known by Jews as the Wailing Wall.
World politicians have criticized the conversion of the Aqsa Mosque area, considering the move a part of a greater plan to erase Jerusalem's Islamic identity and replace it with Judaic themes.
The Buraq Square is an Islamic endowment and part of the Aqsa Mosque, said Organization of the Islamic Conference secretary Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.
He added that Israel's works in eastern Jerusalem are a flagrant violation of international law.
The Turkish official warned that Judaization policies in the Aqsa Mosque and surrounding areas would affect the religious, architectural, historical, and cultural aspects of Jerusalem.
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Hamas: Policy of razing Palestinian villages won't change facts of history
DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Hamas strongly condemned the Israeli occupation forces' new racist crime of razing an entire Palestinian village in the northern Jordan Valley, asserting that the policy of razing Palestinian villages won't change facts of history.
Hamas said in a press release on Wednesday that the demolition of Abul Ajjaj village in favor of expansion projects in nearby settlement of Miskyut has rendered the one thousand inhabitants of the village homeless.
It said that the new "Zionist, racist crime" is the latest in a series of racial cleansing crimes aimed at evicting Palestinians from their villages in which they and their forefathers lived from time immemorial.
The movement hailed the inhabitants of Palestinian villages who are standing fast in face of the forced evacuation bids led by the IOF and its military arsenal.
Hamas urged the Palestinian masses to display solidarity with Abu Ajjaj inhabitants and to resist IOF crimes and schemes, which aim at destroying 45 other Arab villages. It called on the Arab League and the UN to assume their duties and restrain the Israeli occupation authority's crimes against humanity.
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Israel razes more Palestinian properties
Israeli forces have demolished at least seven Palestinian structures in the eastern part of the occupied West Bank, bordering Jordan.
The troops also destroyed a number of shelters used to house cattle during the early morning operation in Abu Al-Ajaj, a small village in the Jordan Valley, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday.
Witnesses say Israeli forces attacked the residents who tried to defend their properties and arrested several Palestinians. Israeli troops also killed 15 sheep belonging to the villagers.
The Save the Jordan Valley campaign described the attack on Abu Al-Ajaj village as ethnic cleansing practiced before the very eyes of the whole world and international human rights institutions.
Israeli authorities confiscated the village's lands two weeks ago to expand an illegal Jewish settlement.
The Jordan Valley -- a large strip of land which makes up at least a quarter of the occupied West Bank -- is internationally recognized as part of the Palestinian land.
All settlements built in Israeli-occupied Palestinian land are deemed illegal under the international law.
Israel occupied the West Bank during the Six-day War in 1967.
Also on Wednesday, Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian house in the Al-Tur district of the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) despite a court order to halt the demolition.
Israeli authorities have been engaged in a regular demolition of the Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank, East al-Quds in particular, claiming the buildings have been illegally constructed on public land.
Palestinians, on the other hand, complain that it is almost impossible for them to get permission for building on their own occupied land, especially in the illegally annexed East al-Quds.
Palestinians believe that the expansion of Jewish settlements on their occupied lands will make the establishment of a Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza Strip impossible.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/152420.html
Israel erases Palestinian village of Abul Ajaj from map
JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC)-- Israeli bulldozers under heavy military protection demolished Wednesday morning the village of Abul Ajaj in the northern Jordan valley region as a prelude to expanding the settlement of Metsuwah that was established on Palestinian lands.
Eyewitnesses said that more than 30 Palestinian structures belonging to the family of Al Doais were totally removed from the area, adding that the Israeli troops have imposed a military cordon on the area since the early morning hours, while the family refused to leave their hometown.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) had handed the residents of the village orders to evacuate their homes, which were attacked earlier more than once by extremist Jewish settlers.
In another incident, the IOF stormed in the morning of the same day the village of Bani Hassan in the Palestinian city of Salfit, and embarked on knocking down Palestinian homes and bulldozing agricultural lands.
Local sources reported that the demolitions took place in Beir Abu Ammar town, adding that the Israeli troops physically assaulted the Palestinian farmers and detained head of the municipal council Abdulkareem Rayyan.
They also said that dozens of Palestinians flocked into the town in order to stop the demolitions and clashed with the troops.
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) had warned months ago the Palestinian owners of the lands in this town not come to their lands at the pretext they are state property and located within the area classified by Israel as C.
Citizens from the area said these demolitions were carried out in an attempt to control water resources in the area, where the settlers want to take over water wells and deprive the Palestinian villages from them.
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Palestinians clash with IDF over West Bank demolitions
Civil Administration personnel raze tent encampment, pigsty, road, prompting clashes between security forces, locals. No injuries reported. 'Demolitions aimed at expanding settlement of Masua,' one Palestinian says.
Security forces on Wednesday razed Palestinian fences and water installations built unlawfully in the Nahal Kane Nature Reserve located in the West Bank. A tent encampment and three pigsties illegally built by Palestinians were demolished on Tuesday night.
Civil Administration personnel also razed an illegally paved road in a nature reserve situated in Israeli-controlled territory. The paving of the road was funded by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
Clashes erupted between Palestinians and the security forces following the demolitions. No injuries or detainees were reported as of yet.
Jihad Dayes, whose family's structures were razed, told Ynet that dozens of peole lost their homes as well as warehouses which housed the community's cattle. He noted that the demolitions were aimed at expanding the settlement of Masua.
Dayes also noted that settlers marked the territory meant to be razed using pegs as early as last month, and that a fence had been placed around the area on Wednesday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3989277,00.html
Shin Bet May Build Shortcut for Netanyahu through Nature Reserve
Shin Bet security service is considering building a private road through a nature reserve that would connect Prime Minister Netanyahu's house to the Route 2 coastal highway, Haaretz claimed on Wednesday.
The Shin Bet is envisaging the possibility to construct a shortcut from Prime Minister's Jerusalem residence to his Caesarea house, clarifying that, if carried out, the plan would be legal. The move would allow the security service to keep away from having to block residential traffic in Caesarea when Netanyahu arrives and leaves.
Environmental advocates claim the building plan would cause irreversible ecological damage. The Society for the Protection of Nature points out that an alternate route should be identified in order to avoid the damage, even in the event the road is required for security reasons.
Security officials addressed to the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, at the beginning of this week, and requested a response to its proposed plan.
It is not clear whether the shortcut would be accessible for the use of Caesarea's residents, in Netanyahu absence, or whether it would be for the exclusive use of the Prime Minister and his guests.
The nature reserve is known to be one of the last habitats of its kind in the country. Part of the reserve has been already obstructed by turning its northern border into a large sand bank to mark a barrier between Caesarea and the neighboring Arab village of Jisr al-Zarqa.
Residential development has incorporated over the years most of the sand dunes in the area. Environmental campaigners are afraid that further construction would irrevocably harm the flora and fauna that live in the dunes.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59996
Al-Quds home razed despite court order
Israeli forces have demolished a Palestinian house in the occupied East al-Qud (Jerusalem) and destroyed a number of buildings in the northern West Bank.
Scores of Israeli forces raided a small house in the al-Tur neighborhood in the illegally annexed city on Wednesday, AFP reported.
The forces bulldozed the home shortly before the Palestinian owner arrived with a court letter ordering a halt to the demolition.
Abed Zablah, a father of five, said the order had been issued early on Wednesday by the al-Quds District Court, but by the time he got home with the letter, the house had already been leveled.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley razed two Palestinian buildings and a tent in the northern West bank city of Nablus, near the border with Jordan. The buildings in the city's southwestern area of Massu'a were being used to house cattle.
Israeli authorities have been engaged in a regular demolition of Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank, East al-Quds in particular, claiming the buildings have been illegally constructed on public land.
But Palestinians complain that it is almost impossible for them to get permits for building on their occupied land, especially in the illegally annexed East al-Quds which the international community has never recognized as part of Israel.
Israel captured East al-Quds in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it despite strong opposition from the rest of the world.
Palestinians demand the city as the capital of their future Palestinian state and see demolition and settlement operations as part of Israel's long-term judaization project, which would effectively make a two-state solution implausible.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/152335.html
More Bedouin structures demolished in Jordan Valley
JERICHO (Ma'an) -- As the sun rose early Wednesday, Palestinian Bedouins living in Abu Al-Ajaj, a small village in the Jordan Valley were surprised to see Israeli bulldozers demolishing their sheds and sheep shelters.
The incident came only two weeks after Israeli authorities confiscated lands belonging to the village slated to expand an illegal settlement.
Ma'an's correspondent visited the village whose 135 residents are all members of the D'eis family. He said he saw demolished sheds and barracks as well as water tankers which provide water for domestic use and for animals to drink. The water was spilt on the ground. Locals told him that bulldozers completed the demolition in the early morning.
He was also told that Israeli soldiers who escorted the bulldozers attacked residents when they attempted to defend their property. Amongst those beaten by the soldiers was an elderly man identified as Shihda D'eis. The soldiers detained several people and released some of them later. Osama Omar D'eis and Ali Shihda D'eis remained in detention, according to locals.
After the demolition, military vehicles were stationed at the entrance to the village and later on Red Cross staff and international solidarity activists from the International Council of Churches arrived in the village.
Abu Al-Ajaj is a small village in the Jiftlik area which is the second largest populated area in the Jordan Valley after Jericho. About 7,000 Palestinian farmers live in Jiftlik and earn their living from agriculture and livestock.
The Save the Jordan Valley campaign described the attack on Abu Al-Ajaj village as ethnic cleansing practiced before the very eyes of the whole world and international human rights institutions.
Israeli authorities removed the village in the 1970s and built a settlement called Miswah on its lands.
A military spokesman confirmed that troops in the Jordan Valley destroyed two buildings and a tent being used by Palestinians in Massu'a, southwest of Nablus, near the border with Jordan.
The buildings, which were being used to house cattle, were demolished because they had been erected illegally on public land, the spokesman said.
AFP contributed to this report.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=335483
'Israelis confiscate Palestinian home'
Laborers lay out pipes for a new housing project in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) on November 14, 2010.
Aided by Israeli police, a hard-line Israeli organization has reportedly taken over a Palestinian home against the will of its residents.
On Tuesday, the Elad organization, which engages itself in efforts to put Palestinian property to the name of the Jewish settlers, saw the 16 members of the household out of the building in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem), Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz wrote.
"We saw people from Elad inside the house coordinating things. They seemed heavily involved," AFP quoted activist Assaf Sharon as saying.
"There are about 100 police here and the whole area is completely closed off," he said.
The organization encourages Jews to move into dense neighborhoods in East al-Quds, in line with Israel's policy of Judiazation of the city, which came under Tel Aviv's occupation in 1967.
The residents said the Palestinian owner had left the house to them in his will. Lowell Investments Ltd, a company known to be acting on behalf of Elad, however, said it had bought the property from the landlord, who recently died.
Elad has also invested financed archaeological excavations in the crowded Arab neighborhood of Silwan in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Tel Aviv has planned to raze 22 Arab-residing homes in the neighborhood to build a so-called archeological park. Angry locals protesting the project have been faced with stiff police action.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/152269.html
Israel razes Palestinian home in East Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israeli police on Wednesday razed a Palestinian house in occupied East Jerusalem, shortly before the owner arrived home with a court order halting the demolition.
Scores of police and a single bulldozer were involved in the operation, which leveled the small house in the Al-Tur neighbourhood near the Mount of Olives.
House owner Abed Zablah, a father of five, showed Agence France-Presse a letter issued early Wednesday by the Jerusalem District Court ordering a halt to the demolition.
But by the time he got home with the letter, the house was already flattened, he said.
Israeli police had no immediate comment on the demolition.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley destroyed two buildings and a tent being used by Palestinians in Massu'a, southwest of Nablus, near the border with Jordan, a military spokesman told AFP.
The buildings, which were being used to house cattle, were demolished because they had been erected illegally on public land, the spokesman said.
Permits for Palestinians to build in East Jerusalem are extremely rare, rights groups say, and Israel frequently issues demolition orders despite the sensitive nature of such operations on land the Palestinians want as capital of their future state.
Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the rest of the world. The state considers the whole of Jerusalem its "eternal and indivisible" capital.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=335512
IOA renews travel ban against Jerusalemite expert
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has renewed the travel ban on Khalil Al-Tafakji, the settlement affairs expert and director of the maps section at Orient House in occupied Jerusalem, for six months.
Tafakji, in a statement on Tuesday, described the decision as "oppressive" and is not based on any evidence, adding that he intends to file a lawsuit against the Israeli interior minister Eli Yishai's decision.
He said that he entrusted Adala, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, to file the case on his behalf.
The Jerusalemite expert charged the IOA with returning to the early stage of the occupation of eastern Jerusalem in 1967 when the security and intelligence apparatuses were controlling Jerusalem and barring travel of citizens unless with military orders.
The decision, the second in 2010, reflects the amount of confusion in the midst of the Zionist political scene that is under the hegemony of the far right, and constitutes a clear message to the Palestinian Authority that Jerusalem is out of any negotiations, Tafakji elaborated.
He said that he was summoned to the Maskobeh detention center where he was handed the ban based on the interior minister's belief that his travel would pose a security threat to Israel.
Human rights sources revealed that Israel was planning to impose a similar travel ban on 18 Jerusalemite figures in a bid to quell opposition to its Judaization of the holy city.
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10 jan 2011, 12:54 , Respect -
Maria 25 nov 2010
Israelis demolish Palestinian mosque
Israeli forces have destroyed a Palestinian mosque in a village in the occupied West Bank, violating the primary rights of Palestinian people.
The attack took place in Yarzeh village early on Thursday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Earlier on Wednesday, Israeli troops demolished at least seven Palestinian structures in the eastern part of the occupied West Bank.
The soldiers also destroyed a number of shelters used to house cattle in Abu al-Ajaj, a small village in the Jordan Valley.
Witnesses say Israeli forces attacked the residents who tried to defend their properties and arrested several Palestinians.
Israel occupied the West Bank during the Six-day War in 1967.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/152582.html
Tubas mosque razed
TUBAS (Ma'an) -- Israel's Civil Administration demolished a building in the Tubas area on Thursday which villagers use as the only mosque in the small town.
Residents of Khirbet Yarza, a village of less than 200 residents, said Israeli bulldozers entered the Jordan Valley area early in the morning and tore down the mosque, saying document indicated that it was demolished because it lacked a proper permit.
Local spokesman delegated by the PA Ahmad As%u2019ad said villagers had papers proving the mosque was legal, and that it was built before 1967, when Israeli forces occupied the West Bank.
A Civil Administration official said the building was demolished along with eight sheds which were built without permits in an area that Israeli forces had declared a firing zone.
"The extension on the building which workers said could have been a mosque was unsafe," he said, refuting claims that the structure had been in place for as long as villagers claimed.
"They got the evacuation order three months ago and the demolition order after that, they had a chance to appeal it in the court," he added.
The spokesman from the village, whose residents depend on small-scale farms and livestock raising for their living, did not indicate that the issue had been taken to the Israeli courts.
Since 1967, Israel has designated close to 18% of the West Bank a closed military zone for the purposes of military training, according to UN documents.
"Israel's planning regime in Area C directly contributes to poor living conditions confronting many Palestinians in the West Bank," a report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs said.
According to Israeli officials, "citizens have the time to arrive and appeal at the civil administration offices," but according to the UN, few appeals succeed, being unable to satisfy severely restrictive policies.
Most recent demolitions echo similar incidents which prompted a December 2009 UN report, which notes that "Palestinian construction is effectively prohibited in some 70 percent of Area C, while in the remaining 30 percent, a range of restrictions virtually eliminate the possibility of obtaining a permit."
The OCHA report noted that some 39% of the West Bank falls under the category of "state land," noting that the area is "four times more than the territory taken up by the built-up are of settlements." The issue was particularly acute for residents of the Jordan Valley, the report said, "where almost all of the area falls under the jurisdiction of two Regional [Settlement] Councils."
In practical terms, the UN office has noted, "in almost the entirety of the Jordan Valley, Palestinian construction is prohibited."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=335823
25 rendered homeless in Yatta after latest Israeli demolition
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- The extended family of Iyad and Muhammad Musleh Al-Amour, 25 men, women and children in total, had their 250 square meter home demolished by Israeli Civil Administration forces early on Thursday.
The home, in the Ad-Derat area east of Yatta in the southern West Bank, was razed using heavy machinery and in the presence of personnel from 15 military jeeps. Officials on the scene said the home had no permit.
Al-Amour said that when the family was given stop work orders on the home, a lawyer was contracted to make an official sketch of the building and submit it for licensing. The owner said he had paid the lawyer but did not know where the legal proceedings were at.
Local officials said there were 30 other homes with outstanding demolition orders on them, all adjacent to the Karmeil settlement, reportedly due for an expansion.
Municipal officials told AFP that the destroyed building was home to 18.
Khirbet Yarza is located in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli control and where all construction and planning issues come under the jurisdiction of the Israeli Civil Administration.
Figures from the Israeli NGO Bimkom show that around 95 percent of applications for a building permit are rejected, with the Civil Administration only granting around 12 permits a year.
UN figures show that in 2009, Israel destroyed 180 Palestinian structures in Area C, including 56 residential buildings.
AFP contributed to this report
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=335953
[Wake up] Israelis demolish another Palestinian mosque [Nov 25, 2010]
(3:15) [Wake up] Israelis demolish another Palestinian mosque [Nov 25, 2010]
11 jan 2011, 12:26 , Respect -
Maria 26 nov 2010
PA: Israel destroying Palestinian state
PA: Israel destroying Palestinian state
Published today (updated) 26/11/2010 22:52
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority said Thursday that Israel is destroying its efforts to build a Palestinian state.
"We build roads of peace, the Israeli government destroys them. We plant trees to protect our environment, they uproot them. We send our young children to school and their soldiers bully them and beat them up," a statement from the Ramallah-based government said,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was "vociferously fighting" for the rights of Israeli settlers to illegally build on Palestinian land, the PA said, while Israeli soldiers and settlers "relentlessly attack, destroy, and violate Palestinian children, women, and the elderly within their own neighborhoods and homes."
On Wednesday, Israeli forces entered villages south of Salfit and destroyed two projects funded by the PA Finance Ministry worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Israeli authorities destroyed the "Freedom Road" project in Qarawat Bani Hassan. The road was intended to allow Palestinian families to access their homes, schools, land and health clinics, the statement said.
The PA requested that donors report back to their capitals on the destruction of the road, which was paid for "through the generous support of their tax payers."
Meanwhile in the same area, crews from the Israeli Civil Administration and the Society for Protecting Nature in Israel arrived with bulldozers and demolished the Wadi Qana rehabilitation project which cost the PA $120,000.
The projects were part of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's plan to build institutions and infrastructure for a future Palestinian state. Fayyad's plan, "Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State," was released in August 2009. It set a two-year timetable for building the institutions of the Palestinian state as a parallel track to continuing efforts to secure that state via peace talks with Israel.
The PA also condemned the brutal attack of a Palestinian child in East Jerusalem by Israeli forces on Wednesday. The assault left 7-year-old Adam Mansour in hospital. Fayyad instructed the PA health minister to provide the boy with all necessary medical facilities, and called on the Israeli government and the UN to take immediate action.
"This is a hate crime against a defenseless child by well trained, armed Israeli soldiers and there should be no impunity," the statement said.
The PA also condemned the recent wave of demolitions, which have displaced hundreds of Palestinians and destroyed homes, agricultural facilities as well as a mosque in the West Bank.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=336206
Hamas: Demolition of mosques and villages reflects Zionist racist policies
DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Hamas strongly condemned what it called IOF thuggish behaviour against the Palestinian people in the villages of the Jordan valley and the Negev, the last of which was the demolition of the village mosque in Yazra in the West Bank.
The IOF on Thursday morning raided the village of Yarza near the Northern Jordan Valley city of Tubas, demolished the village mosque and handed out demolition notices against ten homes in the village. The neighboring village of Abu Al-Ajjaj was torn down one day earlier.
Hamas said in a statement on Thursday We, in the Hamas movement, strongly condemn the thuggery of the Zionist army against our people in the Jordan valley villages and the Negev, and consider its criminal act today, which comes one day after the demolition of Abu Al-Ajjaj village as an expression of Zionist racist policies driven by sheer hate and based on violating the rights of the Palestinian people through deportation, forceful expulsion and demolishing mosque and homes in favour of Jewish settlement projects .
The movement stressed that the occupation crime of demolishing the mosque which has been standing for 40 years is but one in a chain of aggressions on houses of worship and reflects a war on heavenly religions and the holy places associated with them in contravention of all international conventions.
Hamas called on the Palestinian people to unite against the occupation onslaught on mosques and holy places and on the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the Arab League and the United Nations to play their role in defending human rights and places of worship.
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Wave of Israeli Demolitions, Displacements in West Bank, East Jerusalem
On Thursday morning (25 November), Israeli forces demolished a number of Palestinian structures in at least 2 different locations in the West Bank, displacing at least 31 Palestinians, more than half of them children.
* In Khirbet Yasra in Tubas Governorate (in the western hills of the Jordan Valley), Israeli forces demolished at least 7 Palestinian structures. According to the village council, this included 2 residential structures and 4 livelihood-related structures, as well as a mosque. As a result at least 2 Palestinian families of 11 have been forcibly displaced. We have received reports that other structures in the same location have been demolished as well, but have been unable to verify that as of yet.
* In Ar Rifa'iyya village, south-east of Hebron, Israeli forces demolished a building containing 2 apartments, forcibly displacing 2 families of 20 people, including 16 children.
And on Wednesday 24 November, Israeli forces destroyed a large number of Palestinian-owned structures in several locations in the Central and Northern West Bank, forcibly displacing 23 people, including 16 children, and destroying the livelihood of dozens of others. In addition, Israeli settlers took over an uninhabited apartment in East Jerusalem. We are still in the process of verifying all the facts, but wanted to share with you what we know at present.
In East Jerusalem
* In the At Tur neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Municipality demolished the home of a Palestinian family, forcibly displacing 7 people, including 4 children. The family, which has lived in the building for 8 years, had attempted to obtain an Israeli building permit for the home with the help of a lawyer, but without success. The family has requested a tent and other basic humanitarian assistance as they have nowhere else to live.
* In the area around Hizma checkpoint, the Jerusalem Municipality demolished 7 livelihood-related Palestinian structures; 6 of which served as plant nurseries/shops and 1 of which was used for a furniture business. The demolitions reportedly devastated the livelihood of 13 Palestinian families and resulted in extensive loss of materials and equipment.
* On the Mount of Olives, Israeli settlers took over an apartment on the 3rd floor of a building located close to an existing Israeli settlement (the one overlooking the Old City). The apartment, which is one of 4 apartments in the building, was uninhabited at the time; it was vacated and sealed last year by a Palestinian family which had purchased it from the previous (now deceased) owner in 2005. Since that time the family has been engaged in a legal dispute with a settler group which similarly claims to have purchased the property from the former owner. The apartment was sealed last year following an order from the District Court pending resolution of the case.
* In addition, on Tuesday 23 November the Jerusalem Municipality returned to Al Isawiye and completed the demolition of 2 Palestinian livelihood-related structures that were partly demolished on 11 November. This included a building used as a stable for horses and a cement structure where some members of the family lived when tending the farm.
In Area C
* In the Abu Al Ajaj area of Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, the IDF early this morning demolished 3 large structures, including 2 buildings (containing 2 units each) that were used for residential and livelihood-related purposes and 1 building used to store fodder for animals. As a result, 2 Palestinian families of 16 people, including 12 children, have lost their home and been forcibly displaced. In addition, a number of young sheep were killed as the structures were demolished on top of them. A considerable amount of fodder was similarly destroyed. The structures in question received demolition orders from Israeli authorities back in 2008, but the families were in the process of challenging the orders before the Israeli High Court.
It is worth noting that this is the same area that in recent weeks has been targeted by Israeli settlers from Masu'a settlement, who have made repeated and aggressive attempts to expand the settlement by taking over more land from the village, including through illegal fencing that threatens to cut the Palestinian herders residing in the area from their livelihood. For information about these attempts, please see page 5 of the Humanitarian Monitor for October, available here. (not working link)
* In the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in Salfit Governorate, to the north of the Ariel settlement "finger", the IDF reportedly demolished at least 1 livelihood-related Palestinian structure. In addition, levelling of land was reported in nearby Wadi Qana. We are still following up on these cases and will send further information tomorrow.
We will be working with partners in the DWG to try to respond to the most urgent needs arising as a result of the demolitions; once we again we encourage all of you to continue to advocate against ongoing demolitions, evictions and displacement at the hands of Israeli authorities as well as Israeli settlers in the occupied territory.
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IOF kicks family out of home to demolish it
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli troops stormed Thursday the Irfaiyya village south of the West Bank town of Yatta, before forcing Shahda Al-Hareemi and his family to leave their home to demolish it for allegedly being built without a permit, anti-wall activists reported.
The same day four activists were detained in the Al-Khalil town of Beit Ummar during an arrest campaign the IOF launched campaign targeting anti-settlement and anti-wall activists.
The detainees were identified as Beit Ummer's national anti-wall committee coordinator Mousa Abdel-Hameed Abu Maria, 32, Saddam Kasab Abu Dia, 25, Yousef Abu Maaria, 38, and Moayyed Hassan Mahmoud Al-Tait, 20.
The Israeli military raided earlier that morning the Yarza village near the Northern Jordan Valley city of Tubas, before leveling the village mosque and handing out demolition notices against ten homes in the village. The neighboring village of Abu Al-Ajjaj was torn down one day earlier.
An extension had recently been attached to the 42-year-old mosque before its demolition.
Troops detained eight Palestinians for questioning throughout the West Bank the same day, Israeli Radio said.
The Salfit village of Wadi Qana near Deir Istia was raided one day earlier. Agricultural equipment was wrecked and farmers ejected during the incursion.
Soldiers confiscated plastic pipes and knocked down farming structures the landowners had recently erected to make their farms produce more efficiently, Deir Istia mayor Nazmi Salman said in a press statement Tuesday,.
In a separate incident, a mob of Jewish settlers assaulted a Palestinian man Wednesday in his home in the south Nablus village of Qasra.
The pack gathered at the village's main gate before breaking into the home of Abdel-Hameed Hassan and severely beating him, locals reported. The victim was transported to the Rafidia hospital in Nablus city for treatment.
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Israeli forces destroy another mosque
Palestinian men pray amidst the rubble of a mosque that was destroyed by the Israeli army in the West Bank village of Khirbet Yarza in the northern Jordan Valley on November 25, 2010.
Israeli military bulldozers have demolished yet another mosque and some structures in the Khirbet Yarza area in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank.
Earlier on Thursday, Israeli forces had destroyed a Palestinian mosque built before the 1967 Israeli occupation in Tubas, a small town in the occupied West Bank, violating basic rights of its residents, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Israeli troops razed another mosque and more than 10 other structures in two areas of the occupied West Bank on the same day, AFP quoted Palestinian sources as saying.
They also said troops had leveled "more than 10 buildings used for sheep". Most of the demolitions took place in the village of Khirbet Yarza.
The Israeli army confirmed knocking down what it described as "eight temporary structures" that had been built inside a military firing zone without the required permits.
At the opposite end of the West Bank, Israeli troops also destroyed a building that was home to 18 people in the southern town of Yatta, the family and municipal officials told AFP.
Khirbet Yarza is located in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli occupation and where Palestinians have to take permits for all construction and planning issues from the Israeli Civil Administration.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has condemned the demolitions, including that of a new road that merely opened in September by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad near Salfit in the northern West Bank.
"Our efforts to construct a Palestinian state come up against the destruction of this state by Israel", said a PA statement, pointing out that the building of the new road had been largely financed by international donors.
Israel has occupied some 60 percent of the Palestinian territory, where illegal settlements are continually expanded.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/152681.html
12 jan 2011, 12:23 , Respect -
Maria 27 nov 2010
A Thanksgiving Message From Gaza
Desert Peace As you Americans sit down with your family on this Thanksgiving Day, think of the Gazans that have nothing to thank you for. Think of the over 1500 citizens of Gaza that were murdered with weapons made in your country. Think of the additional 3 Billion dollars that will be spent on warplanes bound to Israel soon to continue the process of genocide.
As you look at the glowing faces of your beautiful children think of the over 5 hundred children in Gaza whose lives were snuffed out because you didn't care enough to tell your government to Stop Supporting Genocide
As you enjoy your good health think of the people of Gaza who are denied the basic humanitarian needs including medical supplies, thanks to a siege and blockade that your government has supported from day 1.
The following video will help you think about those things mentioned above..... pass your laptop around the dinner table today and share it with your guests.... it's a must see for all Americans.
(7:04) America: The Silence of a Nation. 1 x viewed
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13 jan 2011, 10:12 , Respect -
Maria 28 nov 2010
More Bedouin structures demolished in Jordan Valley
(4:15) More Bedouin structures demolished in Jordan Valley
"As the sun rose early Wednesday, Palestinian Bedouins living in Abu Al-Ajaj, a small village in the Jordan Valley, were surprised to see Israeli bulldozers demolishing their sheds and sheep shelters.
The incident came only two weeks after Israeli authorities confiscated lands belonging to the village slated to expand an illegal settlement.
Ma'an's correspondent visited the village whose 135 residents are all members of the D'eis family. He said he saw demolished sheds and barracks as well as water tankers which provide water for domestic use and for animals to drink. The water was spilt on the ground. Locals told him that bulldozers completed the demolition in the early morning.
He was also told that Israeli soldiers who escorted the bulldozers attacked residents when they attempted to defend their property. Amongst those beaten by the soldiers was an elderly man identified as Shihda D'eis. The soldiers detained several people and released some of them later. Osama Omar D'eis and Ali Shihda D'eis remained in detention, according to locals.
After the demolition, military vehicles were stationed at the entrance to the village and later on Red Cross staff and international solidarity activists from the International Council of Churches arrived in the village.
Abu Al-Ajaj is a small village in the Jiftlik area which is the second largest populated area in the Jordan Valley after Jericho. About 7,000 Palestinian farmers live in Jiftlik and earn their living from agriculture and livestock.
The "Save the Jordan Valley" campaign described the attack on Abu Al-Ajaj village as "ethnic cleansing practiced before the very eyes of the whole world and international human rights institutions."
Israeli authorities removed the village in the 1970s and built a settlement called Miswah on its lands.
A military spokesman confirmed that troops in the Jordan Valley destroyed two buildings and a tent being used by Palestinians in Massu'a, southwest of Nablus, near the border with Jordan.
The buildings, which were being used to house cattle, were demolished because they had been erected illegally on public land, the spokesman said."
This video was shot by members of the International Solidarity Movement on the ground in occupied Palestine. Edited by by Tom Vee.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/11/15854/
14 jan 2011, 01:44 , Respect -
Maria 29 nov 2010
IOF troops raid northern Gaza, round up more West Bankers
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) mounting a number of armored personnel carriers raided northern Gaza Strip areas to the east of Beit Hanun town on Monday, eyewitnesses told the PIC.
They said that four armored vehicles escorted two bulldozers, which leveled Palestinian land.
In the West Bank, IOF soldiers rounded up four Palestinian citizens in various West Bank areas after searching their homes.
The Israeli army radio claimed that the detainees were wanted by the IOF on suspicion of involvement in launching attacks against Israeli targets.
The broadcast did not mention anything about identity of those apprehended or where they were arrested.
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IOA expels Palestinian families from their homes in OJ
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) forcibly evicted a number of families from their apartments in a building in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, media sources in the holy city reported on Monday.
They said that Israeli occupation police and soldiers stormed the building and forced around 50 individuals out of their homes and threw their furniture in the street.
Um Hafez, one of the owners of those apartments, told Al-Arab website that police officers blocked her from entering her apartment as she was in Ramallah during the incident and rushed back to her home.
She warned Palestinians living outside occupied Palestine and have real-estate property in Jerusalem not to file eviction complaints as the real-estate are then automatically transferred to the jurisdiction of the IOA according to the law of the absentees' property, which means their eventual confiscation.
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15 jan 2011, 00:18 , Respect -
Maria 30 nov 2010
Attempted theft allegations in Jordan Valley
TUBAS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces tried to confiscate livestock from residents of the northern Jordan Valley on Tuesday, locals said.
Residents of Al-Faresyeh said soldiers assaulted and detained village council head Aref Darahmeh.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=337575
Israel hands demolition orders to village mosque, homes
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) Israeli forces on Monday handed demolition notices to a mosque and the owners of two homes in Al-Ma'sara village south of Bethlehem, locals said.
Six military jeeps entered the village and soldiers delivered the orders and photographed the homes and the mosque, said Awad Abu Sway, who coordinates settlement issues in the Bethlehem district.
The homes slated for demolition belong to Mahmoud Zawahrer and Awad Zawahreh, who were summoned to appear at an Israeli court on 23 December, Abu Sway said.
He added that a lawyer would be appointed to appeal the demolitions.
Officials with the Israeli Civil Administration did not respond to requests for information by e-mail.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=337224
City demolishes unpermitted homes in Arab areas of Jerusalem
Council maintains that demolitions are carried out in both Jewish and Arab neighborhoods of the capital.
The Jerusalem municipality on Tuesday demolished three Arab-owned apartment buildings and an add-on structure in East Jerusalem neighborhood.
The demolition orders were carried out by the Sheikh Jarrah, Isawiya, and the refugee camp Shoefat, with Israel Police and Border Police officers standing guard.
According to the Jerusalem City Council, the demolitions were carried out by order of court and in keeping with the municipality's legal obligations. They also said that the planned demolitions had been included in its annual development plan. The council noted that home demolitions occur in both the western and eastern sections of the neighborhoods of the city.
U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government on several occasions over the last two years for ordering and carrying out the demolition of Arabs homes. In July, U.S. State Department Spokesman Philip Crowley called similar demolitions 'unhelpful,' since they 'change the facts on the ground.'
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Bulldozers demolish home, workshop in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) Bulldozers of the Jerusalem municipal council escorted by Israeli police and border guards demolished a newly constructed home and a printing workshop Tuesday in the neighborhood of Al-Isawiya, north of the Old City.
The home, under construction for two years, was a 125-square-meter building belonging to Atiyya Imteir, a father of eight and worker at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
While the first demolition went unopposed, the subsequent demolition of a 20-meter-square printing shop in Al-'Isawiya, owned by Robin Ulayyan, was contested by family members. Witnesses said the protest was quashed using tear gas.
Speaking with Ma'an following the demolition, Imteir said that he was given no prior notice that the building would be demolished, though family members said a "stop work order" had been delivered to the home a year and a half earlier. The owner made no mention as to whether he had initiated legal proceedings following the delivery of the papers.
The orders, known locally as "demolition orders," demand that homeowners appear before a magistrates court to defend allegations, in this case that the home was being built without a permit. Because legal action at the court rarely succeeds, the stop work orders essentially constitute a demolition order.
According to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, 20,000 homes in East Jerusalem have standing demolition orders against them, while thousands of others have "stop work" orders, mandating owners to cease construction and apply for a permit to build.
Occupied in 1967, East Jerusalem was illegally annexed to Israel in the 1980s, bringing more than 225,000 Palestinians under Israeli governance. Residents must apply to a municipal government they do not recognize for permits to build. Those who do apply face discrimination, with a small fraction of residents being granted permits.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=337349
MSD: Israel has razed 1, 485 homes in east J'lem since its occupation
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Al-Maqdesi for society development (MSD) foundation said Israel has demolished 1, 485 Palestinian homes in the eastern part of occupied Jerusalem since 1967 and issued 1, 322 orders to raze homes in the same area in 2009 and 2010.
The foundation noted that if the Israeli occupation authority carried out these orders, 3, 655 Palestinians, including 1, 699 children and 807 women, would be displaced from their homes.
It also said it would publish later another report about demolition of homes and structures in the West Bank and the Gaza.
MSD added that its documentation of these demolitions lasted five months and was based on reliable information collected from newspapers, concerned organizations and displaced Palestinians.
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Al Maqdese Concludes Comprehensive Report On Israel's Violations In Jerusalem
The Al Maqdese Society for Development concluded recently a comprehensive report on the Israeli violations in occupied East Jerusalem, and revealed that since Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, the Israeli authorities demolished and issued orders to demolish 1485 Palestinian homes in the city.
he report was prepared by 12 researchers and eight volunteers from different universities in the West Bank.
It revealed that Israel issued 1322 demolish orders targeting Palestinian homes in Jerusalem in 2009 and 2010. The society said that should these orders be implemented, at least 3655 persons, including 1699 children, will be rendered homeless.
The documentation process took five months of intensive research and study that included using the Archive of the Al Quds (Jerusalem) newspaper, contacting different social, civil and human rights organizations, and collecting testimonies from Palestinians who lost their homes after Israel demolished them, and those who have homes that are slated to be demolished.
The first phase of the documentation process was conducted by monitoring the Israeli violations, collecting official reports and contacting victims and officials, while the second phase was analyzing and verifying the information before storing the data on a special system to analyze it and issue detailed and comprehensive reports.
The society stated that the Israeli violations also targeted holy sites, especially Muslim and Christian archeological sites, and ongoing Israeli settlement activities and plans to construct more settlements in the occupied city.
The Center intends to publish the detailed report to include all collected data and testimonies regarding Israel’s illegal violations against the residents, their property and the holy sites in the city.
It said that Israel's practices violate the International Law and all international treaties regarding protecting civilians living under occupation.
The center stated that it currently has a detailed and a comprehensive database on Israel's violations against the Palestinians in Jerusalem since 1967.
The database includes detailed and analytical reports on every area and neighborhood in the occupied city.
http://www.imemc.org/article/60044